Back on the Alaska Marine Highway! (9/19/12)

FYI: posting at 5AM Alaska time while docked in Kodiak. Unknown hours to Homer (should be 9, but weather has slowed us down).

Hey Everybody!

I won't be able to post this until??? But...I am writing before bed on the 19th from somewhere on the water, headed south for the Aleutian Chain Islands. This final day in Kodiak was rainy and windy and not all that nice. The reward for the day's lousy weather, however, was a beautiful evening on the water.

I'm including a few parting shots of the Kodiak area and then sunset from wherever we are....What I can tell you is that there are not many ways to see what I'll be looking at for the next several days. Alaska's ferry service goes only as far south as Dutch Harbor. Beyond Dutch Harbor lies the rest of the Aleutian Chain. That stretch can be seen from a Navy vessel or a fishing vessel. I am FAR from everything & will be closer to Japan than CA once in Dutch Harbor. Amazing!

Fishing vessels coming back to unload the day's catch.

With salmon season wrapping up, this boat has already loaded up for crab season.

What a REALLY good year of fishing can build on Kodiak's waterfront...

The large background island is Spruce Island, important historic & pilgrimage site for a Russian Orthodox Saint. From a Russian Orthodox Priest on the ferry I learned that the smaller island is where 4 Russian Orthodox nuns live - all year! They are self-sufficient - fishing (no hunting), chop wood, no motor vehicles. Two of them live together & the other two live in solitude. A short boat ride away live 4 monks with a skiff.

Sunset on the water.....

Gonna try to post one more entry before we leave the dock.....

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